Faktor: Macedonia ask European Union for help to cope with refugee flow

The media comments further that the country started selecting which migrants to allow crossing the border and which not.

The move has left hundreds of migrants from Asia and Africa stranded in Serbia and Macedonia, but while those denied entry into Croatia from Serbia have been taken to an asylum centre, and those on the Macedonia-Greece border are still stuck in no-man’s land, hoping they would be allowed to resume their journey. On Sunday, individuals could be seen trying to persuade police to let them pass, while others withdrew from the border to set up tents a short distance away. “We have not yet received a response from the Croatian side”.

Fears over who may be among the migrants soared after what appeared to be a Syrian passport was found by the body of a man who blew himself up during the Paris attacks; it is not clear if the passport is genuine, but it was carried by someone who arrived in the European Union through Greece and Balkan states in October.

Refugees have staged a peaceful rally in the Greek border village of Idomeni to protest against Macedonia’s decision to deport a few of the asylum seekers entering the country.

The Macedonian authorities followed the example of Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia, which are also on the Balkan refugee transit route, in an attempt to keep out what they regard as economic migrants.

“It is a decision made in urgency, out of desperation, they have to abandon their homes, their families”.

Slovenia – the next country in the chain – also said it has been turning back the so-called economic migrants. “UNHCR does not think that there is any nation that can be excluded from worldwide protection… each case individually should be screened”. Prosecutor Jan Reckendorff states he wants the person, whom he did not determine, to be fined for violating Danish immigration laws in that forbids aiding foreigners to enter Denmark illegally.Reckendorff stated in Friday.’s assertion the human being in September drove 5 Afghan refugees from the German city of Flensburg, south of Denmark’s border, to a Sweden-bound ferry within the northern Danish port town of Grenaa.Reckendorff stated it was now as much as the courts of law to make your mind up.

“We have to protect our country”. “People younger than 18 now account for about a third of new arrivals in Gevgelija, Macedonia, up from one in 10 in June”, she added.

Associated Press writers Elena Becatoros in Athens, Costas Kantouris in Idomeni, and Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia, contributed.